16Feb 2023 by Post

Long Story Short: The Origin of Replication and the Information Sequence Problem

biochemical language, Chemistry, Discovering Intelligent Design, Evolution, information, information sequence problem, intelligence, Intelligent Design, Jack Szostak, Long Story Short, machines, molecular machines, Nobel Prize, origin of information, origin of life, programming code, proteins, replication, RNA, RNA world, Scientific American, self-replicating molecule, specified information, Stanley Miller, transcription, translation, UC San Diego
As an undergraduate at UC San Diego, I attended a seminar taught by Stanley Miller, the famous chemist who put origin-of-life research on the map. Source
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13Apr 2022 by Post

Frankenstein and His Offspring

abiogenesis, Aristotle, biology, cryogenic freezing, Evolution, Frankenstein, Funny Man: Mel Brooks, Gene Wilder, Harold Urey, Intelligent Design, Mary Shelley, Mel Brooks, movies, origin of life, panspermia, Patrick McGilligan, satire, Stanley Miller, Svante Arrhenius, Why Words Matter: Sense and Nonsense in Science (series), Young Frankenstein
"Abiogenesis" seems to draw its strength from pseudo-scientific folk-beliefs that life could somehow be made to emerge from non-life. Source
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06Jan 2022 by Post

A New Flaw in the Miller-Urey Experiment, and a Few Old Ones

atmosphere, biology, biology textbooks, early Earth, Eric Anderson, Evolution, experiments, glassware, Harold Urey, ID The Future, Intelligent Design, Jonathan Wells, Miller-Urey experiment, origin of life, Podcast, Stanley Miller, textbooks, The Mystery of Life’s Origin, University of Chicago
It is an interesting finding, but as Wells explains, it is far from the first problem discovered with the experiment, nor the most serious one. Source
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11Nov 2021 by Post

Fables of Evolutionary Psychology (aka Sociobiology)

Charles Darwin, Chemistry, Evolution, evolutionary psychology, How I Came to Take Leave of Darwin (series), Louis Pasteur, macromutations, Mars, micromutations, Niles Eldredge, paleontology, Paul Davies, sociobiologists, sociobiology, Stanley Miller, Stephen Jay Gould, Steve Stewart-Williams, Viking mission, Whack-a-Mole, William Harvey
Evolutionary psychologists are prone to make up just-so stories which are then passed off as being entirely veridical. Source
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17Aug 2021 by Post

Tonight, New “Long Story Short” Video Delivers a Dose of Reality for Origin-of-Life Researchers

"building blocks" of life, academic fraud, Airgas, amino acids, Brian Miller, carbohydrates, carbon dioxide, Casey Luskin, Change Laura Tan, Evolution, experiments, heart disease, heart failure, Intelligent Design, Jeff Bada, Le Chatelier’s principle, lipids, Long Story Short, nucleotides, origin of life, Pier Luigi Luisi, prebiotic Earth, reagents, researchers, Stanley Miller, The Stairway to Life, YouTube videos
In the time of the early Earth, Airgas, the supplier from which the researchers obtained their materials, was not around. Source
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24Mar 2020 by Post

Crisis in the Chemistry of Origins

biological information, biological molecules, biology, Charles Thaxton, chemical evolution, chemicals, Discovery Institute Press, DNA, Evolution, Francis Crick, James Watson, neo-Darwinian theory, nucleic acids, origins, prebiotic evolution, proteins, Roger Olsen, Stanley Miller, The Mystery of Life’s Origin, Walter Bradley
Editor’s note: As an alternative to what you are getting pretty much everywhere else in the media at the moment, Evolution News is proud to offer inspiration, pointing to purpose and meaning in life. The profoundest mystery and thus the deepest inspiration is life itself. Discovery Institute Press has just published a greatly expanded edition of the 1984 classic of intelligent design science literature, The Mystery of Life’s Origin. Below is an excerpt from the original introduction by Charles Thaxton, Walter Bradley, and Roger Olsen. Two monumental scientific reports appeared in 1953, both of which have subsequently received wide acceptance in the scientific community. One was the proposal by James Watson and Francis Crick of their double helical model for deoxyribonucleic acid, or DNA. According to their now-famous model, hereditary…
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